Oh, won't ye ascend to Jesus, then why not take it now? Thou art thy sin confessing, to Him thy Savior bow. Only a step, only a step, love He waits for thee. Come when thy sin confessing, thou shalt receive a blessing. Do not reject the mercy He freely offers thee. Step to Jesus, believe, and thou shalt live. Lovingly now he's waiting, and ready to forgive. Only a step, only a step, God, he waits for thee. Come, and thy sin confessing, Thou shalt receive our blessing, do not reject the mercy He freely offers thee. Only a step to Jesus, a step from sin to grace, ♪ What has my heart decided? ♪ ♪ And moments fly at face ♪ ♪ Only a step, only a step ♪ ♪ Come, he waits for thee ♪ ♪ Come when thy sin confessing ♪ ♪ Thou shalt receive a blessing ♪ ♪ Do not reject the mercy ♪ He freely offers thee. Only a step to Jesus, so why not come and say, Gladly to Thee, my Savior, I give myself away. Only a step, only a step from me waits for Thee. Often Thy sin confessing, I shall receive a blessing. Do not reject the mercy He freely offers me. Well, good evening, folks, and let me welcome you to the first night of our drive-in church from St. Philip Baptist Church. It's good to see you with us tonight. It's a real blessing to see the car park so well attended. This evening, you'll see some of the little signs going about that we are able to transmit the drive-in church into your car through the radio. And if you tune your radio to 87.5 FM, 87.5 FM, and you should be able to get the service through your car radio but it is really good to see you all this evening and glad you've all found the venue okay and we're grateful certainly that we've been able to have our drive-in church here this year. Over this next number of weeks we've got different speakers who will be taking part and tonight we're delighted to have one of the folks from our own church, Gordie Morrow, and he's going to testify in just a moment or two's time. But we hold this drive in church, really, to hold forth the Lord Jesus as the Savior of the world, who came into the world to save sinners. And our great desire tonight is that you would come to know the Lord as your own and personal Savior. That's our prayer, and we ask that you don't leave tonight without considering Christ and where you will spend eternity. After the meeting tonight, if you just stay where you are, and the ushers that you see in the yellow jackets, they will direct you out from the car park. Next week, God willing, we'll be here again at half past six, and Fred Greenfield will be here to minister God's word in song, and he'll also be here to testify, and he'll be here to share God's word. So do please remember that next Lord's Day evening. Now, before I hand over to Gordie for a word of testimony, I want us just to pause and to pray. And if you're saved tonight, I want you to pray that the Lord would speak through his servant and through his word this evening. So let's all pray together. Our gracious God, our eternal loving Heavenly Father, we come before you this evening in the name of the Lord Jesus, and we want to thank you afresh for this opportunity to preach the gospel. We want to thank you that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who will believe. Thank you, Father, in the midst of a hopeless world, we have a message of hope. And Father, we want to thank you for what you, the Lord, have done in so many of our lives. Father, how that you reached down and you saved us by your great grace. We want to thank you for the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, who loves each one of us. and gave himself upon the cross of Calvary. This evening we want to thank you for Gordie and Lord we thank you for the day in his life when he gets saved and Lord how you have led him right throughout his life and Father as he would testify in just a moment or two we pray you will bless him, we pray you'll speak through him, we pray that you will endure him with power from on high, that Lord that those that don't yet know the Lord would hear words whereby they might be saved. A little later, as we bring the meeting to a close with a challenge from your word, we pray that you would own and bless it and use it for your glory. Father, we thank you for this venue that you have permitted us to use, and we ask our Father over this next number of nights, in your will, that you'd be pleased to own and bless these meetings, for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. It's amiss of me actually to say tonight, and we welcome those that are tuning in online, we're able to stream our drive-in service tonight, so welcome to those that are watching online from wherever you are. But tonight, it is a great joy and privilege to have Gordie Alonga testify, and I'm gonna invite him now to come and share what God has done in his life. Well, folks, I just thank you for coming along tonight to listen. This isn't my normal place, I can assure you. I would far rather be directing traffic tonight than standing up here. However, when I was asked to come along, I was reminded of the verse in Romans 1 and verse 6 that says, And that's why I'm standing up here tonight, because I have a testimony to give. Because at a point in my life, I came to know the Savior. So I'm just going to talk through testimonies, just telling you how I came to know the Lord and what He's done in my life. I live just locally here, just a couple of miles down the road, although I was reminded today by my wife that I'm only a blow-in, but I just lived down the road, but that wasn't always the case. I lived the first 16 years, or rather I moved to Scotland when I was two and spent 16 years of my life living in Scotland. Now, during the summer holidays, we still came home to Northern Ireland, because this is where the grandparents were and the cousins were, and this is where we would spend our holidays, down in County Fermanagh. And I want to tell you of two events that happened to me during my summer holidays that at the time were completely insignificant to me, but later on would play a part in my salvation. And the two events take place with two grandparents, two granddads, I would like to say that I was brought up in a Christian home. That is, that my mother and father, at a time in their lives, made a commitment and asked Jesus into their lives and made a commitment to follow Him. And my grandparents were the same. And the first event that I want to tell you about was when I was home one summer. During the summer holidays, we would still go to church and to Sunday school. And I remember one Sunday morning getting ready to go out to Sunday school, and my grandfather asking me, he said, have you learned your memory verse? You see, every week we would be asked to learn a verse from the Bible, and that week we would come back, or the next week we would come back to church and we would recite that verse. If we were very fortunate, we would even get a packet of sweets for doing so. The verse that I was to learn that day for that day was Romans chapter six and verse 23. And when my grandfather asked me to recite that verse, I spent the next 30 seconds fumbling over the words. I didn't know it. I hadn't learned it as a teenage boy. I'd done the typical thing. I'd half learned it and I didn't know it. And I can remember my grandfather saying to me, go away and learn it till you don't know it properly. And I was kind of stubborn so I went away and I thought I'll show him. And I went away and learned that verse, Romans chapter 6 verse 23. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. And I thought I'm going to learn that verse so well that if he asks me it, I'll know it backwards. Well, funnily enough, my grandfather never even asked me to recite that verse again. But little did I know that verse was now in my heart, and it was in the back of my mind, and I would never forget it. That verse says, for the wages of sin is death. It's a very good verse to bring tonight because it explains the gospel. The wages of sin is death. Right back in the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve were in the perfect Garden of Eden that God had created for them, they were asked not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They ate of that fruit, and sin entered the world, and through sin, death and sickness. And that verse in Romans chapter six, verse 23 says, for the wages of sin is death. We've all got sin in our lives because of that event. And we will surely die because of that, because of sickness and death that entered the world. But there's a word in there that says, but, and it says the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. There's a gift, a gift that we all can take and a gift must be received. And it says, if we accept that gift, we will receive eternal life. That is, that someday if we have accepted that gift, we will go to be with God in heaven. It also tells us how to get that gift. It says, through Jesus Christ our Lord. It tells us exactly how to receive it. If we ask Jesus into our heart to be our saviors, we will receive that gift. And that verse now was buried in the back of my mind. I probably never gave it any thought for a number of years to come, but it was still there. The second event that I recall was my other grandparent. And regularly during the summer holidays, we had to help out with chores. And one of the things they do in Fermanagh, there mightn't be much of it up around here, but we would go to the bog to dig turf and to get the turf ready, the peat for the fire. And I can remember us cousins going up to the bog and my aunt and uncle would have been there, or several aunts and uncles maybe, and we went up to the bog, and there were several teenage cousins about too, and I can remember my grandfather saying to us, he says, one shall be taken and one shall be left. Now he might have said a whole lot more, but those are some words that I remember him saying. And of course he was referring to Matthew chapter 24 and verse 40 where it says, then shall be two in the field, the one shall be taken and the other shall be left. This verse refers to when the Lord comes again. And if you believe the Bible as I do, I believe the Lord will come again. And this verse says that when he returns, not everybody shall be ready to go to be with him. And some will be left and some will be taken. And that was what my grandfather was asking. He was asking us, as his grandchildren, Are yous ready to go? Because some of yous are and some of yous aren't. And I was one of the ones that wasn't. Again, that instance went into the back of my head, and for a long time I didn't remember it. I went through my life as a teenager growing up in Scotland, and I suppose you could say that I'd done everything that a teenage boy does. A lot of things that I'm not going to tell you is about that I'm not proud of. Things that now I look back on and would call worldly things. And I went through my life, and I've got to say, there was nothing really significant in my life that happened, no big events. I just wandered through life. I went to church. I lived in a Christian family, as I said, and I went to church Sunday by Sunday. but I didn't want to be there. Yes, I believed the Bible. Yes, I believed there was a God in heaven, and I knew all these things were true, but I didn't want to go to church. You see, the reason I didn't want to go to church was it didn't suit the lifestyle that I wanted to lead. I had friends, and I would meet up with my friends on occasions, and we would go out, and there would be drink-taking and other things done. We would go places that I didn't want my parents to know that I was there. But you see, because I was brought up in a Christian home, I couldn't come home to my family. I couldn't come home to my parents. I couldn't come home drunk. So I never got drunk. And I always thought I was missing out on something because I was only around the peripheral age of things. And all my friends were having this great fun and I was missing out. So I determined in my heart that I was going to live my life. I was going to obey my parents. But as soon as I possibly could, I was going to leave home and I was going to pursue that life that my friends had. I was going to get involved in the things that they were involved, and I was going to find that happiness that they had. And folks, I can tell you that I enjoyed doing those things. I'm not going to stand up here and tell you that the things of the world aren't attractive, that they're not fun. I enjoyed those times. But the next morning, they were gone. They didn't last. So I continued on my life with this plan, with a single aim in mind. And I resentfully went to church and done all that I should be doing. But I wouldn't be standing up here if my plan had went the way I wanted it to. You see, one Sunday I went to church as every other Sunday I did. I can't say there was anything at all different about that Sunday. I went to church in the morning, came home, went to church in the evening and came home. And I got into bed that night, and as I lay in my bed, some thoughts came into my mind. And it was the two things I've already told you about. Romans chapter six, verse 23. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. One shall be taken and one shall be left. And as I lay in my bed that night, I started to ponder these things. Could I wake up in the morning and my parents be gone because the Lord had returned? Could I die in my sleep and not be in heaven? You see, there's only two places we'll go. The Bible says we'll either go to heaven or hell. And as I lay in that bed that night, a great conviction came over me. As I lay in the bed that night, I got frightened and afraid. And I knew if I got out of bed that night and that if I prayed, that it would change my life forever. I wasn't thinking of the good that it would do in my life. I was thinking of the things I would miss out on. You see, the devil was tugging at me. He was saying, don't get out of your bed. Think of all these things you're going to miss out on. But I had no other choice. I got out of my bed and got on my knees that night. And even though I was brought up in church, even though I knew the things of the gospel, even though I knew how to be saved, even though I knew this verse, I didn't really know what to pray. But I can remember at the side of my bed, I prayed, Dear Lord, I believe in you. I know you're true. I know that I need to be saved. I know that I'm a sinner. And I don't know what I'm taking on here. I don't know how I'm going to cope with this. I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow. But come into my heart and save me. And I can tell you now that my life changed in that second. You know, people talk and people often make fun and they say, oh, he's seen the light. Folks, that's a great way to describe it. It was like a light was switched on in my life. I was once in darkness and now I could see. And I got up off my knees and I knew things would be different. I can't remember whether it was the next morning or maybe the morning after, but I remember coming down to the living room and I remember telling my mum that I got saved. She was sitting in the living room beside the radiator, as she often did, reading the book. And she says, I don't believe you. And it wasn't that my mum didn't believe that I could be saved. It wasn't that my mum hadn't been praying for me. It just shows that I had no idea at all or no incline whatsoever that I was going to seek Jesus. And I've got to say that my life went on from there and my life did change. And if you do get saved tonight, folks, your life will change. I had friends that I don't have anymore because they didn't want to know. They mocked me and they made fun of me. And you know, that's true, your friends may mock you and make fun of you, but this is the bigger picture I'm talking about. And I want you to remember tonight, as it says in our Bible, we all know the Christmas story, Jesus was born into this world. We all know the Easter story, how he was crucified. My savior was taken out to the garden of Gethsemane. He was tried unjustly. There was a robe put on him. He was mocked. He was spat upon. They pulled the hairs out of his beard. They whipped his back and they placed a crown of thorns upon his head before he crucified him. You might get mocked, but it's nothing that my Lord hasn't went through. And you know, there's one difference between the mocking that he received and the mocking we might receive. He could have called 10,000 angels and stopped it there and then. He could have stopped it in a word, but he chose to go to the cross to die for us. He chose to go to the cross with my name on his lips. He chose to go to the cross for every person sitting in this car park here today and to die for us. My life went on. I moved back to Northern Ireland at the age of 18. I got involved in the different aspects of church and stuff like that, and again, I've got to say, my life just went on, there was nothing significant in it. As such, I just followed the Christian life as best that I could, I witnessed when I could, and I done what I could when I could. You know, when we get saved, it doesn't promise that we'll have an easy time of it. And although my life, I've got to say, I've had an easy time of it. I've had my trials too. And it's one of those trials that I want to share with you tonight, just as it close. We have a wee boy in our car, Isaac. He's actually nine today. He's been with us nine years today. And Isaac, at the age of one and a half, took Variel one night. We went to bed that night, and he was fine. We woke up in the morning, and he was covered in bruises, and he was bleeding, and he was very unwell. We took him to the hospital. He was rushed to hospital, and he was very seriously ill. At a point, we thought we might even lose him. My world was turned upside down overnight. And I remember them saying if he got better, it would take a very long period of time. You see what had happened, and I don't want to go into too much details for it to take too much time, but he had took a virus and his immune system had killed off his blood cells that caused clotting. So every bruise, every cut on his body could no longer clot. So he was covered in bruises and he would bleed from every little injury. And they said it would take, if they seen a progress when they put them on these high strength steroids, They said if they seen progress of one or two of these cells in his body over the next week, he'd be doing well. And I remember leaving that hospital tonight. They put him in the cancer wards. There was only one of us allowed to stay, and my wife stayed that night. And I remember leaving that hospital, and I got about 100 yards down the road in my car. And I pulled in at the side of the road, and I wept. And I just prayed for my little boy. And I said, Lord, don't take him from us. Do you know that night the Lord answered my prayer? And he answered my prayer in a way that I wanted it answered, because as I said, he's sitting in the car today. He became a little miracle child. He recovered so fast. The doctor said it was impossible that he could recover so fast. And I believe that was an answer to prayer. But I don't tell you this story tonight. to plucking heart strings. I don't tell you this story tonight so that you'll feel sorry for me. There's nothing to feel sorry for me, for my boy's in the car, he's fine. I tell you this story tonight because I wonder what you're going to do when the trials and the troubles come your way. You see, I have a promise in the Bible, and it says that doesn't matter what trial comes my way, the Lord will give me the grace and he will sustain me to go through it. That could have went so much differently, and I don't know how I would have coped with it, but the Bible says the Lord would have helped me. And I wonder tonight, when the trials come your way, when maybe sickness knocks on your door, what are you going to do? Are you going to call upon the Lord? Are you going to pray to God that you don't believe in? Maybe you're going to blame him. Remember how I said in the Garden of Eden, sickness came into the world through sin. You going to blame God for the sickness? Are you going to be able to call on my Lord and know that he's there to sustain you through everything? The Lord has promised he'll never leave me or forsake me, and it doesn't matter what trial comes my way, he will help me. It could be tough. It might break me, but we'll get through it as a family. But you know, as I thought about that, and I thought about sharing this, and I'm going to be honest with you tonight, there's people invited in here tonight, and I can't see who's in the cars, but there's people I invited in, and there's many people here tonight that invited people in. And they invited you in for a reason. It's because they love you, and they want to see you saved. And I wonder tonight, there's one thing that I don't know how I could cope with. I don't know how I could have come overcome it. And that is if I had to stand at your graveside and wonder where you are. If I had to stand at your graveside and know that you'd rejected Christ, I don't know how I would cope with that because I would know where you would be. Because you see, there's only two places we can be. If you'd have accepted that gift in Romans chapter six and verse 23, you'll be in heaven with Christ. If you haven't, you won't. And I would just plead with you tonight, the time you leave this car park, you'll have made a decision whether you like it or whether you don't. And I would just ask you tonight to consider the things of Christ. Amen. Thank you. Well, I want to thank Gordie very much for being so honest and so open in his testimony. And I hope that the Lord will speak through Gordie and you consider the things that Gordie has shared with us this evening. Thank you to him. And I want to just thank Gordie and his family just for coming along and sharing in the meeting this evening. I want to just bring our time to a close tonight with a very, very familiar verse. But this week, as I thought about coming here tonight, I wrestled with a text that I could close our drive-in church with. And it's found in Acts chapter number 16. And it's a great question. In fact, it's the most important question that anyone can ever ask. We live in a world that's asking many questions. And Gordie has set before us questions tonight about the time when his son was sick. And maybe you're facing things tonight and you're wondering why this is happening, or you're wondering what the world is coming to, and you're asking many questions tonight. Well, there's a question found in the Bible asked by a man. He's what we would know today as a prison officer. And he lived in the city called Philippi. And he was a sin-hardened, irreligious, rough-tough Philippian jailer. He was a man who had no time for God, had no desire to know the gospel, had no desire to be saved. But in his company, he was put in charge of two men, a man named Paul and another man named Silas, two what we would call Christian missionaries. And in Acts chapter 16, they've been imprisoned for their faith. They've been beaten and they've been put in a Roman prison, which is nothing like a prison we would know today. And in Acts chapter 16 and verse number 30, this is what the jailer asks. He says, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? Sirs, what must I do to be saved? You see, God had brought this man to a particular place in his life, and through events that were no chance happening, God had Paul and Silas there for a particular purpose, and through different events, he brought that man to a place where he says, what must I do to be saved? And I wonder tonight, as you've listened to Gordie's testimony, and as you've maybe listened to the testimonies of others, maybe you have come to the place where you're asking at the end, of this meeting, what must I do to get saved? You see, salvation is a matter between you and God. God has told us tonight what He done to be saved. He has told us tonight what God used to bring Him to the place of getting saved. And as we look at this Philippian jailer in Acts chapter 16, God used three very significant events to bring this man to his knees. Acts chapter 16, we see first of all that God used a powerful testimony. You see in Acts 16 and verse 25, it says, and at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them. God was going to visit that prison that night, and here were these two men. And they were men who had suffered hardship. And they were men who had went through an awful lot and yet at midnight in a Roman prison they were singing praises and they were worshipping the Lord. Prison officer had doubtless seen countless prisoners in his career, but none were like these men. They were different. You see, these men had joy in jail. These men sang rather than sulked. You see, there was something different in the midst of their trial. And you see, their testimony, I believe, provoked that Philippian jailer. I believe that God used the witness of those two men in that particular place to speak. into the heart of that jailer. You see, their faith had made them different. Their life wasn't a bed of roses, but they had Christ in their life. And Gordy has told us tonight that when we get saved, God does not take away all our problems and all our pains in life. He takes away the problem of our sin, praise God, but the Christian life sometimes is harder. But what a difference it makes to have Christ with us. You see, when we get saved, Christ changes us. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5 and 17, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. All things are passed away and behold, all things become new. But God, I believe, began to speak to that hardened Philippian jailer, and the first method he used was a powerful testimony. That testimony of Paul and Silas spoke to them. I wonder tonight, if you're one of Gordie's neighbors, one of his friends, has his testimony spoken to you tonight? Has it brought you to the place where as you look at your life and you look at his life, there's something different, and you're asking the question, what must I do to besee you? God used a powerful testimony. But you know, secondly, God used a personal crisis. You see, that night when that man went on duty, not only did he encounter two men that he'd never seen before, but he encountered an event that he'd never seen before. You see, God was at work that night, and it says in verse number 26, and suddenly, there was a great earthquake. so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and every man's bands were loosed, and the keeper of the prison awakened out of his sleep." You see, not only had God sent two men, but God sent a great event. God sent an earthquake that would rock the jail. It said it shook the very foundations that the locks of the doors open and the fetters on the prisoners list. You see, God spoke through a powerful testimony, but God spoke through a personal crisis. And you know, God sent that earthquake to awake the jailer and the dead because it says that he awoke in fear. Under Roman law, That man would have been condemned to death had he lost his prisoners, earthquake or no earthquake. And that man found himself awoken and frightened, and he stood in the face of God. What would he do? Where would he turn? But God intervened. I don't know where you are tonight in your life. But maybe in this last number of weeks, maybe in the week that has gone, maybe in the days that have gone, I wonder, has God shook your life? I wonder, has God for years been knocking on your heart, but just recently he's employed a personal crisis. Maybe your life has been turned upside down. Maybe God is speaking to you this evening, and you've been trying for so long to ignore the voice of God. You know, nothing happens by chance. And the diagnosis that you've got, or the job loss that you've had, or the personal crisis that you're facing, nothing happens by chance. As God's speaking tonight, oh, I implore you to listen. Don't ignore God. The Bible says today, if you will hear His voice, harden not. your hearts. God is speaking. I wonder, are you listening? Oh, this man was awoken through a powerful testimony. This man was woken through a personal crisis. But you know, this man was awoken, I believe, through a potential tragedy. Because in verse number 27, When the earthquake hit and their fetters were released, it says that he would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm, for we are all here. You know, I believe the third way that God spoke to this man was through a potential tragedy. Because this man now came face to face with the reality of death, knowing that he was sure to face the death penalty, he decided that he was going to take his own life. Had he have done so, had he have taken his life that very night, he would have dropped out into a lost eternity, separated from God and sure of hell. Only the Lord and His grace intervened and stopped him. That man would have been lost. You know, folks, this evening, the Bible says there is but a step between me and death. Do you know if the last four or five months has showed us anything? It showed us the brevity of life. A virus that is no respecter of persons. Nearly 50,000 people in the United Kingdom swept into a lost eternity in four months. Out into eternity. Oh, I wonder tonight. Imagine facing death without any assurance of eternal life. You see, tonight might just be the night when God calls time in your life, and I ask you, where will you spend eternity? Oh, in the verses we have read, we have seen the awakening, and this man has awoken to his spiritual need through a powerful testimony through a personal crisis, through a potential tragedy. But that's not where the story ends. He says, sirs, what must I do to be saved? What's the answer to the question? Well, that brings us to verse 31. You see, at Whitson Corner, the dealer throws himself at the mercy of Paul and Silas. And he says, sirs, what must I do to be saved? What's the answer to my spiritual conundrum? In answer to his question, Paul and Silas change the eye of his question to Christ and they say simply, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. That's the answer to the question, what must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. That's the answer. You see, he had to believe on Christ. You see, there's many, many people tonight who believe in Jesus Christ and they hope that's enough. But here's the thing tonight, the devil believes in the Lord Jesus Christ. The devil knows that he's real and it's not enough to believe in Jesus Christ. One man says there is a difference between believing something about Jesus and believing on Him. We can believe that He is the virgin-born Son of God, that He lived the sinless life, that He died on the cross, that He rose from the grave, that He's coming again. We can believe all these things and still go to hell. We must put our belief into action. We must trust Him as a sick man. Trust the doctor as a drowning man. Trust the lifeguard. We must trust Him with our soul and our future as a man. Trust the bank with his money. I wonder tonight, what kind of trust, what kind of faith have you got when it comes to the Lord Jesus Christ? I wonder tonight, do you just simply believe in Him or are you believing on Him? Believing on Christ. What does that mean? You're asking the question tonight. I've heard Gordie Morrow's testimony. What must I do to be saved? You've got to believe. What does that mean? It means there's a point in your life when you look away from yourself, and you see Christ, and you see the cross of Calvary, and you see on that center cross the Son of God who loves you, the One who's sinless and spotless and perfect, the One who did no wrong, and the One who could do no wrong, the One who was absolutely impossible for Him to sin, and you see Him on that cross, not for His sins, but for your sins, all the sin that would take you and I to a lost eternity, took Jesus Christ to the cross. And yes, we believe He went to the cross for the sin of the world. But you've got to forget about the world. You've got to see Jesus dying for you. Do you see Him tonight? Do you see Him beaten and battered and bruised? Nailed in agony to a cross, barely recognizable as a man? He's not protesting His innocence. He's not seeking to come down. But there on that cross, He's dying. And He's dying for you. Do you believe it tonight? Not do you believe that Jesus died on a cross for sinners. Do you believe Jesus Christ is dying on the cross for you? You see, it's personal. Oh, what does it mean to believe in Jesus? It means realizing that Jesus had to shed His blood to pay our debt that we owe to God all yesterday night. You can be a multi-millionaire, but it's nothing if you're still indebted to God. You see, we owe a great debt to God. Sin has robbed us of our standing and has separated us from God for all of eternity. But Jesus said, I want to pay their debt, the debt that their sin has got them into. I want to pay that debt upon the cross of Calvary. I want to shed my blood. And you know, here's the thing, we're not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold. The Bible says God has no interest in our riches. There is filthy rags in His sight. God only accepts the blood. And Jesus Christ shed His precious blood. And that's why He shed it. To cleanse us from sin and to pay our debt to God. And it has been paid in full. Do you believe in His sacrifice? Do you believe in the blood that He shed? Oh, I don't care what you've done tonight. You could be the worst sinner that's ever walked the world. Doesn't matter who you are, what you've done, the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son can cleanse you from all sin. Do you know there has to be a point when you realize that Jesus is not a way to heaven, but He's the way to heaven. The Bible says neither. Is there salvation in any other, for there's none other name under heaven given amongst men, whereby you must be saved? Folks, there's not many ways to heaven tonight. There's one way, and Jesus is the only way. Have you been awoken tonight by what Gordy has said, by what God's Word has said? And you're asking, sirs, what must I do to be saved? Do you know, I want to ask you another question tonight. Another solemn question as I close the meeting. What must I do? What must you do to be eternally lost? Ever ask that question? What must I do to be lost? Absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. We will be eternally lost if we do absolutely nothing. Because the Bible says, he that believeth not is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. What must you do to be lost? Absolutely nothing. What must you do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. God doesn't want you to go and do any great exploit. You can be saved in your car tonight. Listen, the Lord loves you. He's not willing that you should perish. He wants to save you, which is why he went to the cross of Calvary. Can I ask you a question tonight? If you found yourself out in a lake, and you couldn't swim, and you were drowning, and a life vest was thrown in beside you, why would you drown when there's a life raft ready to take you to safety? Can I ask you tonight, why will you die in your sins? Why will you go to a lost eternity? Why will you go to be forever punished when there's pardon at the hands of Jesus? He's not dead. He's alive. And he's changing lives. He changed Gordie's life. He's changed many of the lives in this car park. And I want to tell you tonight, Jesus can change your life. Oh, God spoke to this Philippian jailer through a powerful testimony. You've heard a testimony tonight. He spoke to him through a personal crisis. Don't ignore what God is doing in your life. He spoke to him through a potential tragedy, facing death. And he says, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt not might, not hope to be, but thou shalt be saved. What are you depending on tonight for eternal life? You can leave this car park, sure, if only you'll put your trust in the Lord Jesus. We're going to pray, and as we pray, why don't you consider what you've heard tonight? And even where you are, why not pray along with me that the Lord would save you and save you for time and for eternity. Our Father in heaven, as we come to an end of another night where the gospel has been sounded out, Lord, as we look at this Philippian jailer and the great question he asked, what must I do to be saved? Lord, to bring him to that point, you awoke his heart through a testimony. Lord, I thank you for the testimony of Gordie tonight, and I pray for those that are listening that don't know the Lord, that their hearts would be awoken by the difference that you've made in Gordie's life. Lord, you spoke to that man through a personal crisis. Should there be one here tonight who's going through an awful time in their life, where perhaps you're speaking to them, help them to listen. Lord, you spoke to that man as he faced death. All of us are just but a step, a heartbeat from eternity. Help us to examine our hearts tonight. And if we're at that place where we're looking, what must I do to be saved? Father, I pray this evening that some soul would bow in simplicity and simply believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Put their whole trust upon Him. Seek His forgiveness. Apply His blood by faith. and come and trust the Lord Jesus Christ as their own and personal Savior. Speak on tonight after the voice of man is silent, we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. Folks, thank you so much all for coming out tonight. We have greatly appreciated your support in coming along. And do please take care as you leave the car park. Please follow the directions of the ushers. They will dismiss you row by row. But do remember next Sunday night, God willing, half past six, Fred Greenfield will be here to share in the meeting. But if you have any questions, do please consider the Lord Jesus Christ. We are here. You can email Our church, if you go onto our website, you can get in touch if you want to know more. But please, as Gordie said at the start, don't leave this car park without putting your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. May the Lord bless you all in the week that lies ahead. Thank you.